We all experience birth – and yet, unlike sex and death (art’s favourite subjects) encounters with birth in contemporary art are rare. Birth is the universal subject – so why is it so obviously absent in contemporary art? A new exhibition, ‘Birth,’ at 59 Riding House Street, London, until 9th November tackles the taboos, joy, […]
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Anxiety is a common concern in the UK, with an estimated one in six of us experiencing an episode of anxiety or depression a week. Many of us will be at work, struggling to get through the day, with the condition more common in people from the ages of 35 to 59. It can have […]
Early symptoms of frontotemporal dementia are often confused with symptoms occurring in psychiatric disorders. Reporting their findings in Journal of Neurology, Finnish researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu show that serum neurofilament levels can be used as a diagnostic tool to differentiate between these conditions. Frontotemporal dementia is the […]
World Mental Health Day is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma.[i] Although the stigma is starting to change a study by ThinkWell LiveWell found that people are putting their mental health on the back-burner, with over a third ignoring signs of stress and anxiety. The Naked Professor, Ben […]
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A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that the drug could reinvigorate the response to chemotherapy in cancers that had become resistant, in both […]
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· First clinical study to show link between types of gut bacteria and radiotherapy-induced gut damage · Studying patients’ bacterial fingerprint could help predict, prevent or treat gut damage following radiotherapy Taking a ‘fingerprint’ of the mix of bacteria in the gut can indicate how susceptible individual cancer patients are to gut damage as a […]
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A drug used for breast and ovarian cancer is more effective than modern targeted hormone treatments at slowing progression and improving survival in some men with advanced prostate cancer, phase III clinical trial findings reveal. The PROfound trial compared the genetically targeted cancer drug olaparib – already licensed for women with breast and ovarian cancer who have BRCA […]
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Dr Matt Walton will be speaking at the upcoming World Extreme Medicine conference to be held in Edinburgh on 23-25 November. I’ve always had an interest in extreme medicine since I received battlefield first aid training with the Newcastle Combined Cadet Force when I was at school. When I was at medical school, I volunteered […]
What’s it like – and what to do about it: A leading Oxford-based child psychiatrist explains The mental health charity Mind says there should be more help for students affected by social anxiety disorder – which is sometimes known as school phobia or school refusal – in which a child will not go to school […]